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  • Glidewell joins elite alums from FBI National Academy

    The ranks of Office of Special Investigations alums from the prestigious FBI National Academy (NA) grew Dec. 16, 2021, with the graduation of Special Agent William Glidewell. Participation in the academy is by invitation only via a nomination process centered on stringent nominee qualifications.

  • Airman gets life sentence for murder, kidnapping

    Airman 1st Class Mark Gooch, 22, formerly assigned to the 56th Equipment Maintenance Squadron, Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, was given a life sentence Jan. 19, without the possibility of parole, by an Arizona judge, following a guilty conviction last year for the kidnapping and first-degree murder a

  • PJ leader retires after 30 years of service

    After three decades of service, the top civilian at the Office of Special Investigation’s Office of Special Projects retired, but says he looks forward to watching the organization grow from the sidelines. Terry Phillips, who was also the outgoing Air and Space Force's Special Access Program

  • OSI, investigative partners team to resolve global fraud scheme

    The Department of Justice announced, on Dec. 22, 2021, a global resolution of its criminal and civil investigations into Balfour Beatty Communities LLC (BBC), one of the largest providers of privatized military housing to the U.S. Armed Forces, for defrauding the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, and U.S.

  • Largest OSI caseload sent to National Archives

    Half-a-decade's worth of files from the Office of Special Investigations, totaling nearly 17,000 closed cases, were loaded into cargo vans and transported to the National Archives a year ahead of schedule. Just outside the nation's capital, in Suitland, Maryland, houses the National Archives and

  • Joint training builds partnerships, enhances communication

    Special agents from Washington Criminal Investigation Division Battalion participated in a joint training exercise with Air Force Office of Special Investigations and the Directorate of Emergency Services at Fort George G. Meade, Md., Oct. 26, 2021.The training exercise consisted of a staged double

  • Joint investigation grounds drones, imprisons smuggler

    Jason Arteaga-Loayza, 30, a former inmate at Fort Dix, N.J., was sentenced, via video conference Sept. 14, 2021, to 43 months in prison and three years of supervised release, for his role in a conspiracy to use drones to smuggle contraband, including cell phones, cell phone subscriber identity

  • Airman augments special assignment during deployment

    Senior Airman Ramandeep Kaur came to Ali Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait, as a defender originally assigned to the 387th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron. After arriving on station, she was then transferred over to help the Office of Special Investigation Locally Employed Persons Screening Team

  • PACAF Airman of the Year returns to Hawaii as OSI Wing Commander

    Long before he was the Office of Special Investigations Wing Commander for the Pacific Region, he was a high school student in the Civil Air Patrol, learning what it meant to be part of an organization that is committed to serving America’s communities. There he won the Billy Mitchell Award which

  • Virtual meetings fortify OSI, Brazil partnership

    Due to Hurricane Ida’s impact on New Orleans, La., previously scheduled events in September 2021, were cancelled, including the annual International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference, while others were postponed. However, Col. Tara Lunardi, OSI Field Investigations Region 2 Commander,